Or if anyone is up for a bit of marketing, we could have the mre diet. Sell one case of mres for a ridiculous price with the promise that eating only one mre a day will result in weight loss (I would think so as 1200-1400 cals is well below the 2000/2500 recommended intake) A little bit of marketing hype and I think it could work.

You got that right, DirtyDave. Seems like everytime I eat MREs for more than a few days, the weight shoots up. Probably has something to do with my less-than-active lifestyle. But I've found if you have to have your MRE fix, just eating an entree for a meal (instead of the whole MRE) usually helps.